The Advisory Council on National Records and Archives (ACNRA) is a United Kingdom government organization.
The council advises the Lord Chancellor on issues around public records over 20 years old, including public access to records when they're transferred to the National Archives.[1] The council also advises on requests by government departments to keep hold of their records and on public interest issues when a department wants to keep their records closed.
It is chaired by the Master of the Rolls, Sir Terence Etherton, and has 15 members including historians, archivists, former civil servants and journalists.[3] The Council says it's "...guiding principle is to support information being made public".[4] In 2016 ANCRA considered 986 requests from Government departments to keep secret archives which were due to be released.[5]
^Shepherd, Elizabeth (2009). Archives and Archivists in 20th Century England. Routledge. ISBN9781317178866. A new umbrella Advisory Council on National Records and Archives was established, combining the responsibilities of the former Advisory Council and the HMC Commissioners
